#REPLACING KING PINS MANUAL#

If you have an old spindle, practice on it first.Good Luck, Ken Swanīy bill guiney (Billguiney) on Wednesday, Febru07:45 pm: The bottom bushing will already be threaded. By the way, remove both bottom and top bushing that way. A lot will depend on the diameter of the replacement kinpin vs the diameter of the replacement bushing hole. Addressing the tolerances is another story. It doesn't require a large press to do that. To put a new bushing back in just simply press it in with a press. This method is illustrated in some of the Ford publications I have. Strike the bolt to a solid surface while it is inside the spindle housing like a hammer on a solid object such as the back side of the vice or anvil and the old bushing will be driven out. The bolt needs to be just slightly smaller than the bushing hole. Then take a smaller bolt that will go through the opposite end and have some excess length left. Run a correct size bolt into the threaded hole in the bushing. Take a tap that is slightly larger than the bushing and tap threads into the old top bushing. Of course you will have to have the wheel off and the kinpin out so that you can work with it on the work bench. John, taking the king pins out is relativley easy if you have the split bushing remover. Ill check some books, tho, and if I find better info will let you know.īy Ken Swan (Kswan) on Wednesday, Febru07:43 pm:

If it were me (and it had to be dead-on exact) I would have the new bushing machined by a machinist to give the proper clearance for the bolt (I don't trust myself with a hone *that* much!). And I know it's done for other, 'less common' cars.Īs to the fit, I do know that the bushing should be honed to fit the bolt, and (pardon while I blow some cobwebs out of my mind ) I think dad used a Master Cylinder hone set to do it. (And at the age they are, I would imagine you would have to have a liberal amount of penetrating oil on them!) I can't remember if heat is involved, but I did see a reference to someone else having this done to a dropped speedster axle. I think when dad did the '12 axle for mom's roadster, he had to have them pressed out and pressed back in.

#REPLACING KING PINS MANUAL#

Two things I'd like to know from T owners who've done this job is:ġ)how do you get the old bushings out? (trying to bang then out with a rod doesn't work with mine.bushings in too tight and the rod slips off).Ģ) I see that my kingpin bolts are slightly too big to fit into the new bushings.how does the backyard mechanic deal with that? There is some mention of a tool in the Ford service manual but can't find it in Lang's catalog.īy Susanne Rohner (Baybridgesue) on Wednesday, Febru07:10 pm: It seems that no one out there replaces their kingpin bushes for all the non existant information there is on the subject.Īnyway, I'm replacing mine to get my car registered.here in Australia you can have the rest of your car falling apart but if there's a micrometre of play in the steering it won't pass the inspection. Model T Ford Forum: Kingpin bushing replacement Kingpin bushing replacementīy John H (26tourer) on Wednesday, Febru06:00 pm:

Replacing king pins